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Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001 (ICPSR 3832)

Principal Investigator(s):Lien, Pei-te, University of Utah

Summary:

The purpose of this multicity, multiethnic, and
multilingual survey was to provide a preliminary attempt to gauge the
political attitudes and behavior of Asian Americans on a national
scale. Major areas of investigation include ethnic identity,
acculturation, homeland politics, voting and other types of political
participation, political ideology, political partisanship, opinions on
various social issues, social connectedness, racial integration, and
group discrimination. Respondents were asked whether people of
Asian descent had a great deal i... (more info)

The purpose of this multicity, multiethnic, and
multilingual survey was to provide a preliminary attempt to gauge the
political attitudes and behavior of Asian Americans on a national
scale. Major areas of investigation include ethnic identity,
acculturation, homeland politics, voting and other types of political
participation, political ideology, political partisanship, opinions on
various social issues, social connectedness, racial integration, and
group discrimination. Respondents were asked whether people of
Asian descent had a great deal in common culturally, what they thought
were the most important problems facing their own ethnic group,
whether they belonged to any organization that represented the
interest of their group, and their knowledge of the Wen Ho Lee case,
the 8-20 Initiative, and other news stories and information about
Asians in the United States. Political questions probed respondents'
general interest in politics, whether and for whom they voted in the
2000 presidential election, their general knowledge of the
presidential election process, the kinds of political activity in
which they participated, their feelings about Asian-American
candidates, their involvement with political parties, their level of
trust in local, state, and federal government officials, self-identity
with regard to a liberal vs. conservative stance on political matters,
party affiliation, and how active they were in political parties or
organizations in their home country if born outside of the United
States. Respondents were also asked about their attitudes on such
topics as immigration, affirmative action, job training, educational
assistance, preferences in hiring and promotion, marriage outside of
their ethnic group, and incidents of discrimination that they
encountered. Demographic variables include language spoken in the
home, religious preference, home ownership, ethnic origin of spouse,
level of education, income, employment, age, and sex.

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Universe:
Telephone households of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese,
Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese families in the five major
metropolitan areas of the United States where about 40 percent of the
nation's Asian-American population resided in 2000.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Produced by Interviewing Service of America, Van Nuys, CA, 2001.

Methodology

Sample:
Semi-random sample of households occupied by adults from
one of the six major Asian-American ancestries selected to approximate
the size of the ethnic population among Asian Americans according to
the 1990 Census. Telephone households in the metropolitan areas of Los
Angeles, New York, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Chicago were sampled
using a dual-frame approach consisting of random-digit dialing (RDD)
at targeted Asian ZIP-code densities and listed-surname frames.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Response Rates:
The average incidence rate for interviews drawn from
the listed surname sample is 41 percent, with a range from 14.5
percent for the Filipino sample to 81 percent for the Chinese
sample. The incidence rate for RDD interviews is 15 percent, which
ranges from 4.6 percent for the Korean sample to 24 percent for the
Japanese sample. The average refusal rate is 25 percent, with 34
percent in the listed sample and 3.5 percent in the RDD sample.